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-This was a rough week capped off by a rough weekend. To sum it up: Saturday I had to take my sister all the way up to the Lehigh Valley and ended up helping out at an E-Recycling event, mostly cutting wires on dead TVs and moving around computer monitors to be disposed properly. It was exhausting and I got sunburn on the back of my neck, but on the other hand it was neat seeing the whole history of television in one place from an old Philco and a combo TV/Radio/Record Player from RCA...to a flat-screen I swear had 3D capability that someone no longer wanted or was damaged. (plus somehow I got paid for it) Sunday, of course, was Mother's Day and mostly I was trapped doing things with mom all day: on one hand that meant finally seeing "Avengers: Age of Ultron", but on the other I had to go to another dinner with my sister's fiance and his family...barely got what I needed to for the weekend done in the little free time I did have.
-Speaking of Mother's Day, my content for the day is semi-bust...I say semi cause I still hope its coming. I have SFM 54 about that holiday and...I was trying to get a sketch from a certain artist but unfortunately it got really late (even though I was next in line) and I had too many things to do before bed. (sorry, I'm punctual and try to at least be a good son to get things that I need to done) Hopefully the Fan Mail will be done and up today or tomorrow; while the sketch...hopefully I'll get it but the line gets really long and people want super huge/complex things from the artist so sometimes I just don't get to my turn and I don't want to just "stay up".
-On the positive front: I actually became an administrator on a Wikia Friday, finally becoming one on the Power Rangers/Super Sentai one! Likewise I got a couple other toku admin jobs for a couple really small Wikias which I will have to probably start watching the shows of in the near future (Tomica Heroes and Chouseishin); at least there are some cool things I hear about both. (they also offered by Garo...but somehow I felt more at home wanting to do Tomica and Chouseishin than Garo, dunno why; not interested in starting Garo yet)
-Now for a mini-review of "Age of Ultron": to sum it up in one word..."eh". It just felt like "another superhero movie" with nothing that special to make it stand out or interesting. I did like some things about it (the running gag about Thor's Hammer, Vision, our first glimpses at Wakanda with knowledge that T'challa will be in the Cap movie next year, some of the little things they used with Hawkeye), but there were too many "big action sequences" and Ultron was just too jokey as a villain, all the more with the whole thing pretty much set off by the possibility of something worse (Thanos) coming and thus the need to solve the problems here before it arrives and screws us over. On the other hand, consider me interested in "Ant-Man" thanks to the new trailer...
-Speaking of Mother's Day, my content for the day is semi-bust...I say semi cause I still hope its coming. I have SFM 54 about that holiday and...I was trying to get a sketch from a certain artist but unfortunately it got really late (even though I was next in line) and I had too many things to do before bed. (sorry, I'm punctual and try to at least be a good son to get things that I need to done) Hopefully the Fan Mail will be done and up today or tomorrow; while the sketch...hopefully I'll get it but the line gets really long and people want super huge/complex things from the artist so sometimes I just don't get to my turn and I don't want to just "stay up".
-On the positive front: I actually became an administrator on a Wikia Friday, finally becoming one on the Power Rangers/Super Sentai one! Likewise I got a couple other toku admin jobs for a couple really small Wikias which I will have to probably start watching the shows of in the near future (Tomica Heroes and Chouseishin); at least there are some cool things I hear about both. (they also offered by Garo...but somehow I felt more at home wanting to do Tomica and Chouseishin than Garo, dunno why; not interested in starting Garo yet)
-Now for a mini-review of "Age of Ultron": to sum it up in one word..."eh". It just felt like "another superhero movie" with nothing that special to make it stand out or interesting. I did like some things about it (the running gag about Thor's Hammer, Vision, our first glimpses at Wakanda with knowledge that T'challa will be in the Cap movie next year, some of the little things they used with Hawkeye), but there were too many "big action sequences" and Ultron was just too jokey as a villain, all the more with the whole thing pretty much set off by the possibility of something worse (Thanos) coming and thus the need to solve the problems here before it arrives and screws us over. On the other hand, consider me interested in "Ant-Man" thanks to the new trailer...
Random Musings - 3/26/24
-I am back home dealing with family for the week, and while part of me is happy to be home with the fact I'm able to help take care of my mom and just get a break from work, I just have to also deal with my sister and the massive fits she has for any and every little thing we do wrong. I can't touch the dishwasher because I don't know if it's clean or dirty and then she goes off about not putting anything in the dishwasher and "leaving her a mess". I go to get a half-pound of salads and she goes off claiming she wanted a full pound when mom said we had to save money since she was the one paying for it. It can't just be one way or the other, can it; plus considering I never know anything and try to adjust, it's still never enough. -Sometimes I want to write a story with a bit more depressing edge and I think I have a right to do it. I still like making the girl sexy or cute, but at the same time I just like the idea that not everything is within their control and not every girl
Random Musings - 3/20/24 (43 and not so bad)
-Yeah, obviously today is today. I still feel ashamed by the bridges I burned that I still had up from last year but I'm happy for those of who that still reach out and care about me. It really does mean a lot even if I haven't said as much as of late; it's just been tough with the job and all the projects going on to really reach out as I had been. Being busy at least is a good thing, but it's also a bad one; and I'm just trying to work out which it really more beneficial. The one thing I learned this year is living longer is good if other people live longer alongside you considering the losses...and those who live that just seem to hate everything I like or that I stand for. I'm grateful for those who help me get through the bad times and fight for what really matters in a world that seems so callous and hateful all the time nowadays. -In good news, I'm actually nearly wrapping up the "Frankenweenie" review; meaning I can start putting up (after some modifications) the "Brave"
A Fair Warning
I know a lot of people are trying to say it now but I need to get this out of the way: My birthday is Wednesday. It is on March 20th. If you want to say anything beforehand it's fine but if you think it's today or tomorrow or anytime prior, you're early. Another fair warning: considering how many bridges I've burned and how I'm on the outskirts of so many fandoms anymore, I'm not expecting anything to happen Wednesday. If anything does, it does. If not...oh well. Trust me, after last year and how those who actually wanted to celebrate with me then now want nothing to do with me now (plus how I have to work due to some stuff there, I'm taking the week after that off instead), I am not expecting much if anything anymore. Everyone else has their priorities, and I'm probably extremely low if non-existent to them. That is all.
Random Musings - 3/14/24
-I really hate having things that just bug me all the time when I'm not doing anything; especially medical issues. Been bothered for a few days by this gash in the soft part of my mouth behind my cheek; makes it harder to eat and brush my teeth and been treating it with asprin though do wonder how effective it's been. -Nearly done with this rough patch of time and just need to get through one more bit of overtime before I have a week of work and...well, I actually get some time off. Well...sort of..taking a week from work cause I have the time but going back to Philly and that means family time instead of me time but...at least I still get more time to relax so...that's probably a plus? -And whether or not I mentioned it before, I'll say it now: I have my 2024 vacation set for the second-half of June. Going back to Canada and if anyone in Toronto (or even stranger, St. Johns, Newfoundland) wants to meet up with me...the options' always open I suppose.
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Would be an interesting sight to see all those old TVs and see how they managed to stick around (and possibly work) all this time. It reminds me with one of my old roommates having to haul a 70's style TV up and down a flight of stairs. Fortunately, we were on the second floor.
That seems to be the sentiment for Age of Ultron so far from what I've heard from others. I haven't seen it myself, and as far as I know, neither has my sister and she's the Marvel fangirl. Maybe if I have some time I'll see it, but I'm in no rush.
That seems to be the sentiment for Age of Ultron so far from what I've heard from others. I haven't seen it myself, and as far as I know, neither has my sister and she's the Marvel fangirl. Maybe if I have some time I'll see it, but I'm in no rush.